![]() ![]() Invisible disabilities include an array of disabilities such as (but not exclusive to) sleeping disorders, learning disabilities, autoimmune diseases and brain injuries (Cook & Clement 2019 Dalgin & Ballini 2008 Nalavany, Crawan & Sauber 2015 Norstedt 2019). Invisible disability, as defined by the Invisible Disabilities Association ( 2018), encompasses psychological, neurological or physical conditions that constrain afflicted individuals’ movements, senses or activities, but which are invisible to the spectator (Cook & Clement 2019). People may be faced with a more ‘immediately’ perceptible disability, such as a physical or sensory disability (Viriri & Makurumidze 2014), and some may be faced with challenges that are not immediately perceptible, such as learning difficulties, known as invisible disabilities (Venville et al. ( 2014) asserted that the estimated number of persons who have disabilities might be higher than most numerical representations. People with disabilities in South Africa make up 13% of the population, of which 5% have a severe disability (Maziriri, Madinga & Lose 2017) however, Graham et al.
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